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Brandon Rahbar: Thunder improve to 5-2. Avoid losing 3 in a row since April 2024 SGA: 43 PTS/4-8 3PT/8 AST/2 STL Ajay: 20 PTS/5 REB Kenrich: 12 PTS/2-4 3PT Mara: 10 PTS/9 REB/1 BLK Stirtz: 9 PTS/3-4 3PT Hart: 5 PTS/14 REB/4 AST/2 STL Peavy: 8 PTS/2-2 3PT/5 REB Next up: Cavs in OKC in 2 days.
Kenrich Williams: “Definitely grateful to be back. Definitely grateful and appreciative that the front office and coach was on board with that. I always say that I want to retire here in OKC, and that’s I mean that. The ability to be able to win games and play on the highest level, that’s what we’re doing it for right now.”
Justin Martinez: Kenrich Williams on Aday Mara: “I really like Big Fella, Big Spain is what I call him. I like Aday. I feel like he has the potential to be a first team or second team All-Defensive type of guy.”
Brandon Rahbar: Kenrich Williams asked what it meant to be a part of the Thunder 4 years ago by @AndrewKSchlecht: “It means a lot, man. Like I said earlier in the season, I love being here. I would like to retire here.” Kenrich has reiterated that sentiment several times since.
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Bobby Marks: Oklahoma City is allowed to exceed the second apron because they have bird rights on Kenrich Williams. A reminder that the 2nd apron doesn’t restrict teams from keeping their own free agents.
Chris Haynes: Oklahoma City Thunder are declining the $7.2M team option on Kenrich Williams, making him an unrestricted free agent, league sources tell me.
Keith Smith: With Isaiah Hartenstein back in the fold, the Thunder now project to be: 🏀$10.2M over the tax 🏀$2.2M over the first apron 🏀$10.8M under the second apron This is without Lu Dort or Kenrich Williams but does count both first-round draft picks.
KeithSmithNBA: The Oklahoma City Thunder will be ~$3.7M under the luxury tax, if they decline the team options for Lu Dort, Isaiah Hartenstein and Kenrich Williams. Thunder will be ~$11.7M under the first apron and ~$24.7M under the second apron before re-signing Dort, Hartenstein or Williams.
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Rylan Styles: Sam Presti on the team options to Isaiah Hartenstein, Luguentz Dort, Kenrich Williams “The first thing is like I said I gotta talk to everybody. Got to get a sense of where everybody is…Is it possible that we just pick up the options for everybody and roll into next season? That’s certainly possible. I certainly wouldn’t rule that out because we haven’t gotten through those conversations…The process itself could take a little while because I want to understand what all is available to me.” Said “If we feel that it’s more beneficial to the organization to have the draft rights to those players irrespective of if they’re going to be on the team..” said it may not fit into a box
Kenrich Williams, another quality role player who has been in and out of Oklahoma City's deep rotation, has a team option for $7.2 next season. Rival executives anticipate that the Thunder will decline that option, although Williams could return at a reduced salary.
Rylan Stiles: Kenrich Williams “It’s no secret that I want to be here until I’m done playing.” Added “Just the environment, the culture, the people that I work with every day. This is a job where I can come in and be myself and everybody around me is good people and a good environment.”
The Thunder center had not been sleeping. He wasn’t stationed in a back seat away from the action. He wasn’t hanging with the coaching staff, who sit in a different section, sequestered from his teammates’ social activity. Yet, he stood up to blurt out a major announcement, one he was certain no one on the plane had yet realized. “Oh!” he yelled. “Jamal Murray had 53! Y’all see that?!” Without hesitation, the Thunder players merged, all cackling simultaneously. Holmgren realized what had happened. It was not his first time zoning out only to enter a conversation without realizing it had already begun. Within seconds, he was giggling just as hard as everyone else. “It’s funny, because it’s Chet,” said Kenrich Williams, one of Holmgren’s closest friends on the Thunder. “That’s Chet. He’s in his own world, man.”
